The digital camouflage pattern was adopted by the Chinese military late in 2007, and is known as the Type 07. It comes in several variations including the urban pattern, which is the version featured in the film and the one most commonly seen during PLA counter-terrorism exercises. There is a digitalized version of the old woodland pattern that is also known as the Type 07, but that uniform is used by the People's Armed Police.

Just found this clip on Youtube that's pretty action-packed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Ql5p0eO5U

Explosions start at about 2:50. It's also interesting that the soldier who is actually firing his rifle is using an AKMS with no apparent modifications, while the other soldier in the Humvee is likely carrying a fake AK-103.

Awesome. :)

But is he allowed to do that? They guy filming that, I mean. Is he allowed to just stand there with a camera, film that scene, and release it on YouTube like that without any kind of legal trouble?

Sure he is, as long as there is no profit out of it.

Or unless someone makes a "copyright" claim on the footage and YouTube takes it down. They're getting bad about it.

Don't mean to re-open an old debate, but one last thing...

http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20091127/157008667.html

In case anyone seriously expects the Russians to even attempt an invasion in this day and age.

Making the events of Modern Warfare 2 almost impossible since the Russians would need ships to carry troops over and support, unless the main fighters and helicopters were supposed to procure fuel when then land on the states.

The one thing I can maybe say in defense of "Red Dawn" is that it's based on a scenario that was actually considered by military and civilian NSC advisers where the commies might invade through Mexico. But that was back in the day when half of Latin America was commie and Mexico itself was actually teetering on failed state status (and despite what some people say now, the chaos created by drug cartels won't de-stabilize Mexico quite that much). Nowadays, an invasion from Latin America would be MUCH harder, even with the new generation of far-left tyrants like Chavez and Morales in power.

As I've said, it'll be interesting to see how the screenwriters for "Red Dawn" 2010 devise their own Sino-Russo invasion. But whatever explanation they come up with, I guarantee you it's something that would be impossible in real life.

And we can't just say "it's hollywood." That's just an excuse not to think. Audiences are mostly intelligent people that like entertaining materials

If I thought too hard, I wouldn't be able to enjoy any movies or TV shows or video games, ever.

But the only reason I dwell on "Red Dawn"'s lack of realism is because I'm kinda disturbed how many people (particularly conservatives) actually take it seriously. It's embarrassing.